Creating wealth is the best way to help the poor, by providing new jobs for them. Of course if personal habits keep them from being employable or educatable, then there’s a problem. If liberals are genuinely interested in helping poor people they should concentrate their efforts into showing some of them how to be employable. The conservatives will help the rest by forming new companies. Providing vouchers for education would do wonders for empowering the poor. Breaking the cycle of dependancy would also help.

Quit whining you big baby. Good grief! No body is asking you to pay someone else’s bills. If you don’t want to care about people that is fine. Inhumanity of some against others is not uncommon. I have seen no “feeding frenzy”. You have no evidence of that and won’t get any either.

You have fallen for the clap trap scare tactics of the far right because that philosophy is one that favors filthy rich people and penny pinching. Ebenezer Scrooge before the ghosts would be a prime description of how they believe.

You act as if $2 out of a million is going to make you go broke but that $2 could be put to good use to help someone who may starve without it. That is just being downright selfish. You think we talk in stereotypes about the right? Well your statements above contribute to that stereotype.

It’s not that they care any more than anyone else about homeless people, libs want to have higher taxes so that they can legislate more giveaway programs to convice the people who are down and out to vote for more libs. It’s all about accumulation of power.

i watched the video that bruce j referenced in his answer. it is very informative. you mention “for the children” in your question. it’s sad that as sen harkin states in the video there is more oversight for the headstart program than for the pentagon or defense department. i mean 2.3 trillion. that is so sad.

but what were you saying about libs taking wealth from others?….cons worry about a few little social programs for kids, while the war machine and thugs like rumsfeld rape us. 2.3 trillion disappears and cons worry about libs.

When they tell me that, I agree with them (it’s about the only thing we agree on). I don’t care about them. I was once at their level and even living out of my broken down car and I made my way up the ladder and now I own my own business. If they are too lazy to do what I’ve done then I have no use for them.

It’s the same typical left wing slant. To usurp it, to trample on it is the liberal agenda. Their best interest doesn’t lie in America, future generations, or peace. It’s quite the contrary. This is a vehicle for their self serving sense of importance to their own being. This is how they derive their power. They literally believe they know what’s best. In all actuality these people have the cognitive reasoning ability of a 4-5 year old child. They can manipulate ‘that actuality’ into a manifestation of intellect and supremacy by twisting/spinning the meanings of words into whatever best suits their current affliction. They do so in such a way that it would have made Webster put a gun to his head.

No! What you don’t understand is that there is such a divide between the Big Buisness’s and the executives that work with and for them and the “worker” that the “Fair Trade” prices keep going up the small produceers and small buisness cannot compete yet is locked into the “contract” and can’t sell for less, the citizen workers are priced out, their dollar power is naught, their salary is not comenserate with medical, gas, food, prices they are virtually slave to Big Buisness Employers and Big Buisness Control.So I say yes!! to helping to pay bills of others, others that fit the criterion such as the workers, the poor. The tax base is what could contribute and it would force the Piranah Big Buisness to contribute the heftiest share since it takes the biggest bite out of the citizens ability to provide for it’self. Allowing those who have all the marbles to have such power has caught up with us and “the reapers have caught up to the sowers” there is no way the workers can stay afloat as prices go up, salaries don’t, all the legal necessities, licences etc. are so out of sight little guys can’t get into the “run” only BIG BUISNESS! So the rest of us are left on a treadmill without reserves when we end our working lives!!

Funny…to me the phrase “the good of the whole” sounds really socialist to me. I’m fairly liberal myself, in that I volunteer when I can and I do donate to various charities when I have a little extra cash, but I don’t want to give my hard earned money to someone who does nothing but lays around and reproduces just to get more money. I agree with ya totally.

The issue actually is about inflation being higher than the minimum wage hike. It is appalling how many people work multiple jobs and can’t seem to get their head above water.

If you don’t want to help out another human being who is desperately in need, that’s your business. But everyone should have affordable housing and a comfortable life. It shouldn’t be a struggle to pay the basic bills, such as rent, electricity, and phone.

DC is too busy giving themselves payraises to care about the common people.

i am a liberal and i am forced paying a bill for a war whose outcome was supposed to be wealth creation.

in the words of a wise man smarter than you its better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt — but thanks for the laugh.